September/October 2013 check in

We got a Queen Deluxe or Superior... I can't remember now. Our dates seem to be in a slow period, all room types were available.

Ooh, I feel another seat swap coming on! I might change our seats on the flights to and from NZ (refrained from using AKL abbreviation to avoid confusion! ) I won't tell DH though, he already thinks I'm nuts!

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LOL at all the seat changes! I finally figured it out for my friends - so ours is all done.

I checked Hojos and still no availability for our dates I have just spoken with my travel agent and she said her wholesalers just give her generic rooms (eg no differentiation between standard/superior/etc), so she will look into it a bit more later. We really just want to avoid a freeway view! I understand that you can see the fireworks from the pool area anyway? So maybe we should request just a different building to be away from the freeway, and leave it at that?

She is booking The Signature in Las Vegas for us (no resort fees for Australians!)

And she will look into the Courtyard by Marriott San Fran downtown, as this looks like the best option to me (not too cheap and nasty, but not ridiculously over priced either, and still close enough to things without being in a seedy area - from what I gather from reviews online anyway).

It's all coming together - but once it's all booked, what will I do with all my spare time?!

Hopefully Qantas follow suit! From what i've been seeing their flights are alot cheaper and stop overs pretty reasonable times.

Even on sale our tickets will be a huge $1700. And that's with $200 off! When it comes down to it, while I would prefer to fly direct, I can handle a 1 hour stopover in Melbourne if it means saving $450 off normal prices.

Anyone else finding cheap flights? I'm trying to look at VAustralia, but they seem to be having some technical problems...

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I have problems with multi stop on their page (not sure if it's because I am on an ipad or not ). I could see normal return airfares between Mel and SFO (over $2600pp for my dates still). That's why I bit the bullet and grabbed Air NZ sale fares.

Hope everyones travel planning is going well!!! Since the last time I have checked in we have celebrated my sisters birthday, we got our local bakery to make a cake themed with Beauty and the Beast.

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Our cruise planning guide arrived in the mail!!! We didn't even know it was coming so it was a nice surprise for the both us when we opened it as we thought it was probably going to be advertising.

We have started trying to find prices for accommodation before the cruise and for out three week stay at WDW. Prices are very high at the moment for where we are looking at staying other at a DTD hotel or maybe a Disney Hotel if we can get a good price for the stay. Has anyone noticed that most hotels are now charging a $22 resort fee??

As for flights we are currently looking at leaving on the 18th October and flying back around the 20th-23rd. We are averaging on paying about $3000 each. Has anyone found any decent pricing for flights around that time??

so 26 days away....10 days shorter than I would like, but with us cutting the 10 days we save aprox $2400......not staying at universal (accom, tickets car), extra nights at WDW, and extra nights in LA.....and DH didnt want to be away for more than 28 days...

We're leaving Melbourne on the 28th August for Vancouver. We have 9 days in Canada (going to Whistler and Victoria too) before flying to Vegas for 6 nights. we're then driving to the Grand Canyon (2 nights), driving to San Diego for 5 nights (with a stopover somewhere). Then we drive to Anaheim on the 22nd of Sept for 8 nights. It'll be me, dh, dd8 (who turns 9 while we are at Anaheim...she's so excited about a Disneyland birthday), dd6 and ds4.

We're almost all planned and booked. We booked our flights early Nov with Qantas. We got flights for $6500 for the 5 of us. We budgeted $7500, so when we saw that sale we went booked it straight away. We fly MEL-LAX-YVR and then LAX - MEL. We haven't looked into seat allocations yet though. I think that you have to pay for them with Qantas. I do know that we are flying to/from LA on the A380.

We went on a booking frenzy a few weeks ago and have booked all of our accommodation except for a night in Vancouver (we want to stay near the airport for an early flight to Las Vegas the next morning) and San Diego. Still got lots to organise, but I can't wait.

We're leaving Melbourne on the 28th August for Vancouver. We have 9 days in Canada (going to Whistler and Victoria too) before flying to Vegas for 6 nights. we're then driving to the Grand Canyon (2 nights), driving to San Diego for 5 nights (with a stopover somewhere). Then we drive to Anaheim on the 22nd of Sept for 8 nights. It'll be me, dh, dd8 (who turns 9 while we are at Anaheim...she's so excited about a Disneyland birthday), dd6 and ds4.

We're almost all planned and booked. We booked our flights early Nov with Qantas. We got flights for $6500 for the 5 of us. We budgeted $7500, so when we saw that sale we went booked it straight away. We fly MEL-LAX-YVR and then LAX - MEL. We haven't looked into seat allocations yet though. I think that you have to pay for them with Qantas. I do know that we are flying to/from LA on the A380.

We went on a booking frenzy a few weeks ago and have booked all of our accommodation except for a night in Vancouver (we want to stay near the airport for an early flight to Las Vegas the next morning) and San Diego. Still got lots to organise, but I can't wait.

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Welcome Sare! I think we will be in Vegas at the same

Bec some flights are on sale for Sept, so don't forget to check your dates